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 | A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism ISBN: 9781400825516 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Social problems -- United States; Inner cities -- Government policy -- United States; Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States; Occupational mobility -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Activists in City Hall ISBN: 9780801460111 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); Urban policy; Urban policy; Community activists; Community activists; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States ISBN: 9781351211727 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Global Development; Geography; Social Sciences; Culture & Development; Landscape; Planning; Human Geography; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Landscape; City and Urban Planning; Community Planning and Planning Techniques; Housing and Communities; Urban Geography; Planning - Human Geography; Urban Sociology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality ISBN: 9780815705444 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- United States; Metropolitan government -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; Sociology Urban -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Animal City: The Domestication of America ISBN: 9780674243187 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Human-animal relationships -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Urban animals -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Animal culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Urban policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana ISBN: 9780520961371 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Havana (Cuba) -- History; City planning -- Cuba -- Havana; Urban policy -- Cuba -- Havana; Racism -- Cuba -- Havana; Havana (Cuba) -- Race relations; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History; United States -- Territories and possessions -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black Families and Recession in the United States: The Enduring Impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 ISBN: 9781003099918 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Health and Social Care; Humanities; Law; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Social Work and Social Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Planning; Economics; Cultural Studies; Criminology - Law; Regulatory Policy; Sociology; Housing and Communities; Labour Economics; Political Economy; Child and Family Social Work; Race & Ethnicity; Health Policy; Social Inequality; Race & Ethnic Studies; Sociology of the Family; Crime and Society; Social Policy; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways ISBN: 9780262312387 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / The MIT Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Express highways -- United States -- History; Express highways -- Government policy -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation ISBN: 9780801460081 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: State–local relations -- United States; Municipal home rule -- United States; Municipal government -- United States; Municipal corporations -- United States; Urban Policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls ISBN: 9781400823345 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: City planning -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; Zoning law -- United States; Social classes -- United States; Land use Urban -- United States; Community development Urban -- United States; Community organizations -- United States; United; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization: Lessons from Empowerment Zones ISBN: 9780801470912 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Enterprise zones -- United States; Urban renewal -- Government policy -- United States; Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta; Urban renewal -- Maryland -- Baltimore; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community ISBN: 9780472023585 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Afro-Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975–; Urban poor -- United States; Afro-Americans -- Economic conditions; Afro-Americans -- Employment; Urban policy -- United States; Afro-American families -- Social conditions; Inner cities -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Culture and Diversity in the United States: So Many Ways to Be American ISBN: 9781032701691 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Humanities & Media Arts Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Ethnicity; Gender; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Class; Cultural Studies; Regional Anthropology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Culture and Diversity in the United States: So Many Ways to Be American ISBN: 9781315739120 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Humanities & Media Arts Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Ethnicity; Gender; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Class; Cultural Studies; Regional Anthropology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Does Local Government Matter?: How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement ISBN: 9780816681457 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Local government -- United States; Municipal government -- United States; Political planning -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; Political participation -- United States -- States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Environmental Impact Assessment in the United States ISBN: 9781003030713 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Environment and Sustainability; Urban Studies; Environmental Policy; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Planning; Environmental Management; City and Urban Planning; Planning and Sustainability; Environmental Impact Assessment; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | From Despair to Hope: Hope VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities ISBN: 9780815701903 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public housing -- United States -- Finance; Housing policy -- United States; Housing rehabilitation -- United States; Urban renewal -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America ISBN: 9780674969223 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Criminal justice Administration of -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Urban policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Crime prevention -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Crime -- Political aspects -- Uni; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States ISBN: 9781003481485 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Social Class; Social Theory; Sociology of Culture; Urban Sociology; Social Policy; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Housing in the United States: The Basics ISBN: 9781032657646 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Engineering Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Built Environment; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Politics & International Relations; Urban Studies; Economics and Development; Economics Finance and Accounting; Public Administration & Management; Urban Economics; Urban Policy; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Planning; Housing and Communities; Public Policy; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Housing Policy in the Developed Economy: The United Kingdom, Sweden and The United States ISBN: 9781003134329 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Geography; Health and Social Care; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Human Geography; Social Work and Social Policy; Urban Policy; Cities & Infrastructure; Sociology & Social Policy; Social Geography; Social Policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States ISBN: 9780203094815 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History ISBN: 9781400821709 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- History; Urban poor -- United States -- History; Urban schools -- United States -- History; Social history; Social policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills ISBN: 9780813583181 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.; HISTORY / United States / ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America ISBN: 9780815716761 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States; Metropolitan areas -- United States; Metropolitan government -- United States; Land use -- United States -- Planning; Urban poor -- Housing -- United States; Revenue sharing -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Justice and the American Metropolis ISBN: 9780816678730 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States; Urbanization -- United States; Sociology Urban -- United States; Equality -- United States; Justice; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Local Economic Development Policy: The United States and Canada ISBN: 9781315805337 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Urban Studies; Urban Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America ISBN: 9781400833153 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States; Urbanization -- United States; Urban economics -- United States; Sociology Urban -- United States; City and town life -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment ISBN: 9780815701309 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Community development Urban -- United States; Community development Urban -- United States -- Case studies; Urban policy -- United States; Urban policy -- United States -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States ISBN: 9780520942462 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexicans -- United States -- Case studies; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Case studies; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Mexico -- Monterrey; Monterrey (Mexico) -- Economic conditions; Monterrey (Mexico) -- Em; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States ISBN: 9781315819310 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Area Studies; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; American Studies; Literature; International Politics; Political Behavior and Participation; Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Literary/ Critical Theory; American Politics; Racial & Ethnic Politics; Sexuality & the Body; The Body; Disability Studies - Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; Cultural Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | New Brunswick, New Jersey ISBN: 9780813575582 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials).; TRAVEL / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ NY PA).; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / ; ■ Detailed Information | |
| New Brunswick, New Jersey: The Decline and Revitalization of Urban America ISBN: 9780813575582 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: City planning -- New Jersey -- New Brunswick; Cities and towns -- Growth; New Brunswick (N.J.) -- History -- 21st century; BISAC: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC DE MD NJ NY PA); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy ISBN: 9780801467554 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public housing -- Government policy -- United States; Housing policy -- United States; Relocation (Housing) -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility ISBN: 9781592136148 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cycling -- Political aspects -- United States; Urban transportation policy -- United States; Transportation Automotive -- Social aspects; Bicycle commuting -- United States; United States -- Social life and customs; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development ISBN: 9780812207965 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States; City planning -- United States; Urban policy; City planning; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe ISBN: 9781003133841 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Geography; Health and Social Care; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Human Geography; Social Work and Social Policy; Urban Policy; Cities & Infrastructure; Sociology & Social Policy; Social Geography; Social Policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900 ISBN: 9781613762851 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urbanization -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; City planning -- United States; Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Rediscovering the Other America: The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States ISBN: 9780203049846 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Social Work; Sociology & Social Policy; Social Policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories ISBN: 9781439901199 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: City planning -- United States; City planners -- United States Interviews; Urban policy -- United States -- Case studies; Social justice -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It ISBN: 9781613320419 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Relocation (Housing) -- United States -- Psychological aspects; Neighborhood -- Psychological aspects; Identity (Psychology); African Americans -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America ISBN: 9781501706035 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States; City planning -- United States; Sociology Urban -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities ISBN: 9781439902936 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- United States; Inner cities -- United States; Urban renewal -- United States; Regional planning -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 1980–1993; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the United States ISBN: 9781315757582 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Geography; Urban Studies; Urban Studies; Urban Economics; Urban Policy; Urban Politics; Urban Theory; Cities & Infrastructure; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Human Geography; Urban Geography; Planning - Human Geography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform ISBN: 9780815797890 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban transportation policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems ISBN: 9780815798880 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States -- Evaluation; Urban policy -- United States -- Case studies; Federal-city relations -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The "Underclass" Debate: Views from History ISBN: 9780691188546 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- United States -- History; Afro-Americans -- Social conditions; Afro-Americans -- Economic conditions; Urban policy -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The City After Abandonment ISBN: 9780812207309 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban renewal -- United States; City planning -- United States; Urban policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Development of the Wholesaler in the United States 1860-1900 (RLE Retailing and Distribution) ISBN: 9780203103708 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Geography; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Studies; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Industry & Industrial Studies; Human Geography; Distributive Industries; Cultural Geography; Urban Geography; Planning - Human Geography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Mutual Housing Experiment ISBN: 9781439912072 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; Community development; Urban policy; Housing policy; Housing Cooperative; ■ Detailed Information |